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The merger of TV and the Internet is quickly approaching

As a Jeff Foxworthy fan, I laugh every time he tells the joke about how President Johnson would interrupt his favorite children’s TV show to make an announcement.

To paraphrase one of the founders of Blue Collar TV: “The president is on TV. We’re going to miss Flipper!!!!.”

Today, children, even those over the age of 50, don’t have to miss their favorite shows. Thanks to web sites and video on demand sites, they can watch Sponge Bob at anytime. While Barrack Obama can demand access to the normal TV channels, most of us can forgo his executive announcements to watch our shows when we want.

However, the biggest issue today is the quality of the broadcast feed. If you watch a YouTube video, it’s often grainy and reminds me of watching TV in the 60s when there was a thunderstorm near my parent’s TV antenna.

“It’s much harder to marry a 50-year-old technology and a brand-new technology than those of us from the brand-new technology industry thought,” Eric Schmidt, the chief executive officer of Google said in an article from the New York Times.

Firms like BroadRamp, my client, are working hard to help the Internet bring high definition content. Having seen their prototype, I believe that when I buy my next TV that I will want something like Google as an interface. Or, if I don’t want to buy a new boob tube, I can purchase the interface from Logitech to bypass my current subscription with Time Warner.

However, for me to do that, I need to see more content development. The promise of having one portal for email, videos and TV make a lot of sense. Yet, until it becomes fully developed, I will stay with my bundled cable package.